Suddenly I'm just trying to tie up loose ends: finish unfinished books, finish tasks with deadlines looming in early May, plan ahead of little collage-y things to make this summer. While other people take a vacation in the summer, or spend as much time as possible at the summer cottage, I'm moving to the big city (Helsinki, that is) for the summer to work on my poetry book. No distractions and a change of scenery is just what the doctor ordered. That means I'll be taking a long break from bookbinding in a mere few week's time. Sorry! I hope you'll stick around to see what I come up with come autumn.

My plan is to create small collages or paper art pieces every now and then, created from a small boxful of supplies I'll drag with me to my summer home, so this blog won't end up completely abandoned for the summer. But writing is going to be my priority until September, at least. This isn't a goodbye post - just a friendly public service announcement well ahead of time. I have yet to decide whether to close down the shop for the summer or simply change processing times to 2-3 weeks and ship when I visit home. But if you want to play safe, stock up!

Among the unfinished project was this vintage lace guest book that had been waiting for me to put it together for a good while, but all it took was a gloomy snowy day in late April for me to take out the needles and finally sew it. This one's pretty big (16,3x23cm / 6.4"x9.1") and it has 48 pages of 150gsm paper. Perfect wedding guest book material, I'd say. You can find it for sale here.

I hope the seasons are treating you better wherever you are. Here the spring has stalled, almost decided not to come at all. Yesterday it snowed a lot again and I had to take out my woolly hat from storage... I'm thankful for the daylight, but I'd prefer if it were not filtered by snow falling down.